ABSTRACT
Warleigh-Lack (see, for example, Warleig. 2004; Warleigh-Lack 2006a, 2006b and Chapter 1 of this volume) highlights the potential synergies between studies of European integration and, more specifically, the European Union (EU), and those focusing on understanding globalization and global governance. Of course, there will be those that regard this endeavour as a kind of academic heresy. Yet, there is the potential for greater understanding of contemporary regional and global governance, if the largely state-based approaches applied by European integration scholars can further accommodate the theoretical and empirical observations made by scholars of global governance and vice-versa. If this is to be done, an emphasis has to be placed on identifying any conceptual commonalities. In simple terms, ‘what unites’.
